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Charles Strozier
 

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Academic Affiliation: Professor, John Jay College
Office phone: 212-237-8432
Email: cstrozier@jjay.cuny.edu
Web Sites: http://www.charlesbstrozier.com; http://www.centeronterrorism.org

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Field of Scholarship

Psychohistory, Lincoln and the Civil War, Contemporary Terrorism

Selected Publications

Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April, 2001, paperback from Other Press 2004).

Lincoln’s Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait ,
revised edition (Paul Dry Books, February, 2001; first published by Basic Books, 1982)

The Year 2000: Essays on the End, ed., with Michael Flynn (New York, NYU Press, 1997).

Trauma and Self, ed. with Michael Flynn, (Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

Genocide, War and Human Survival, ed. with Michael Flynn (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (Beacon, 1994).

Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (New York, Basic Books, 1982).

(With Daniel Offer), The Leader: Psychohistorical Studies (New York, Plenum Press, 1984).

Edited with an introduction: Heinz Kohut, Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic Approach (New York: Norton Publishing Company, 1985).

Articles/Reviews/Essays:
Violence and the World Trade Center Disaster,” Dialogues on Terror: Patients and Their Psychoanalysts, Special Issue Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Fall 2003, Vo. 20, No. 2 (reprinted with changes in Death and Mourning, ed. Samuel Heilman, forthcoming, and further revised in Stephen O’Leary and Glen McGhee, War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic (London: Equinox, forthcoming)

“Kohut and God,” Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution, ed. Alan Roland , Barry Ulanov, and Claude Barbre, (NY: Praeger/Greenwood, forthcoming)

“Autobiographical Reflections on Writing the Biography of Heinz Kohut,”Psychoanalysis and History, Annual of the Psychoanalysis, Volume 31, special issue edited by Jerome A. Winer and James W. Anderson, forthcoming

(with Katie Gentile), “The Mental Response to the World Trade Center Disaster,” Psychoanalysis and Trauma, ed. Daniella Knafo, forthcoming

“The World Trade Center Disaster: Reflections and Meditations,” (online magazine), January, 2002

“The World Trade Center Disaster and the Apocalyptic,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 12 (3): 361-380, 2002

“The Apocalyptic Guru,” Psychological Undercurrents of History, ed. Jerry S. Piven and Henry Lawton (San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001)

“Youth Violence and the Apocalyptic,” American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 62 (3): 285-298, September, 2002

“Heinz Kohut,” The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Ross M. Skelton, ed., forthcoming;

“Heinz Kohut and ‘The Two Analyses of Mr. Z’: The Use (and Abuse?) Of Case Material in Psychoanalysis,” The Psychoanalytic Review 86 (1999): 569-586

Death and the Self,” Progress in Self Psychology 15 (1999): 321-342; “From the Kohut Archives,” Progress in Self Psychology 14 and 15 (1999)

"Lincoln's Stanton," Quarterly Journal of Military History, 12 (1999): 80-87

“Heinz Kohut and the Nazi Takeover of Vienna, 1938,” NAAP Jubilee Journal, 1998, 103-109

"The Early History of the Council,” Self Psychology News, June 1, 1999

“Heinz Kohut’s Struggles with Religion, Ethnicity, and God,” Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis ed. Donald Capps and Janet L. Jacobs (San Francisco, CA: Westview Press, 1997)

“The Year 2,000, the Return of Jesus, and Other Things,” Festschrift for Siegbert Axelsson, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1997

"Heinz Kohut and Psychohistory," The Psychohistory Review, 25(1996).

"The Lives of William H. Herndon," Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 1993(l4); l-l3.

Works in Progress:
A Biography of Heinz Kohut
 
Series Editor/Editorial Boards:
Abraham Lincoln Association; Group for Use of Psychology in History

Other Activities:
The Psychohistory Review
founding editor, 1973-1985; Associate Editor, 1986-present (and Book Review Editor, 1994-).

GUPH Annual Meetings (Program Committee 1995-96)

 

 
 
 
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